9 results for tag: cancer research

A new medical study has found that the latest new cancer drugs are being sold for many times the costs spent developing them; resulting in mega profits for the drug companies who own them and restricted access to these drugs for only the wealthiest patients and healthcare providers.

When we give money to cancer research charities like Cancer Research UK we expect that money to be used efficiently but less than 2% is likely to be spent on researching new drugs that can be given to NHS cancer patients as a routine treatment.

Our medical R&D system is undermining our health – reform could boost our economy and our wellbeing. It’s time we implemented a new, more efficient, collaboratively driven, open innovation model with patient needs at its heart.

Evidence has come to light that the public may be being misled about our progress on beating cancer and that progress is almost certainly not as good as that implied by the much touted cancer survival statistics.

The British public pays £2.5bn a year towards the cost of developing new drugs for cancer, but 95% of cancer research discoveries don't work in patients and half of the 5% that do the NHS can't afford. Is this money well spent?

Barely a month goes by without a newspaper headline hailing the latest “Major cancer breakthrough”, but dig beneath the media hype and you’ll discover the shocking reality that new cancer drugs for most cancers are only expected to improve patient survival by just 2.7 months on average.

An open letter from the Dying for a Cure campaign to World Leaders about cancer. If we truly want to beat cancer sooner, we need to cooperate across the world to use our money, knowledge and skills more wisely - for public benefit, not for profit.

With support for the Dying for a Cure campaign growing, a letter has been sent today to the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, setting out the issues and sharing with him a sample of comments from supporters.

"Through this campaign I hope that together we can bring about change that redresses the balance between profits and public health in cancer drug development." - John Piears, Campaign Founder

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About Dying for a Cure

Dying for a Cure is a campaign, which is calling on the UK Government to reform the whole process for developing cancer drugs, so that it focuses on maximising benefits for patients rather than profits.
The campaign was started by John Piears, who lost his wife to ovarian cancer in October 2015. You can read more about John's inspiration for the campaign in our article Cancer Tug of War